I call these "Summit Stones".....
After gathering these small rocks for many years, while out on adventures, I now splash a bit of paint on them, after 'Mixing In' very special elements with the colors. Then I give these stones back...
The musings here are simply about the wonders of adventure and inspiration. It's all about the importance of giving back and passing forward.....

Wednesday, October 02, 2013

By Stewart Green

Stewart Green of About.com Climbing recently commented on FB about his experiences with sharing the smiles while giving back and passing forward.

"DSD has been sending me padded envelopes from somewhere in remote Canada filled with colorful and magical Summit Stones for the past few years. I always carry one with me to the remote summits that I reach on lonely Colorado peaks and sun-raked desert towers. If you have the pleasure of finding one of the Summit Stones, I'm sure that its beauty and power as a talisman of the wild will stay with you...read DSD's story about mixing in special elements to further the mystery and magic of these simple artistic stones..."

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Stewart Green
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Stewart wrote:Stewart wrote: "I not only love your summit stones and placing them on select summits I reach, tucking one into a crevice on a dead tree, between sandstone boulders on a desert spire, or, in the case of last week when I climbed the highest mountain on Fort Carson by Colorado Springs, tucked inside an old ammo can I found below the summit, but also the mixing of elements that you include in the veneer of paint. Indeed, ancient artistry that takes essential parts of the world and recreates and remakes them into special talismans of the wild. Thank you for your efforts and inspiration to bring these simple tokens of the beauty and mystery of the world into our humble human lives..."

"To muse: to ponder; reflect upon. In Greek & Roman Mythology, muses were the daughters of zeus; inspirers of effort, music & poetry"

"THE ACID TEST OF A TRUE ADVENTURER, IF PRESENTED WITH CERTAIN ANONYMITY, IS WHETHER EACH OF US WOULD STILL HAVE MADE THE JOURNEY BEYOND THE LAST BLUE MOUNTAIN..." M. Clark

"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight... it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of memory, and old tales, of the high and distant mountains" J.Tolkien

"We are all in some sense, mountaineers, and going to the wilderness is going home" J.Muir

"Do you know what these elements are? What they mean? These elements of fire, water, wind, earth, and metals? Do you realize that you are elemental too?" Grandfather, Mountain Elder

"A LIFE LIST, IS IN THE END, NOTHING MORE THAN A TOOL TO LOOK BACK ON OUR LIVES AND CONSIDER HOW WE SPENT OUR BRIEF MOMENTS ON EARTH. AND WHAT IF, IN THOSE FINAL BREATHS, YOU REALIZE - I NEVER GAVE ANYTHING BACK..." J.B. MACKINNON

"PEOPLE WHO SEEK ADVENTURE ARE TRUE POETS OF LIVING..." ANON

"Adventure does give you a chance to come to terms with yourself. What you find out about yourself just comes as a gift" D.Scott

"You went up that mountain one person, and have come down a very different being" Grandfather, Mountain Elder

"By walking out alone into the wilderness... I can after a while begin to see and to hear and to think and in the end to feel with a new and exciting accuracy" C.Fletcher

"Two voices are there; one is of the sea, one is of the mountains" Wordsworth

"The narrow ribbon between land and ocean is a perfect place to understand the mind of wisdom" Deng Ming-dao

"There will be a day when you will climb to a place where the mountain and the sky merge" Grey Wolf

"IF YOU TAKE THAT STONE, YOU MUST GIVE SOMETHING BACK..." GREY WOLF

"The Latin word 'finis' has two meanings: the end or finish, and a goal to reach" V.Frankl